Posted on 10/14/2022 4:50:51 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
NATO defense ministers will gather this week for a ministerial meeting, but one topic of discussion will be anything but routine: the risk that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons in Europe. The recent massive, disproportionate missile attacks launched against Ukraine in response to the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge reinforce the notion that the Kremlin remains unpredictable.
Although Russian use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against non-nuclear Ukraine seems unlikely for several reasons, including the fact that it may frustrate Russia’s broader goals, Western military officials can and must think through their potential responses. Doing so is inherently difficult given the many variables in play, but there are options that would punish Moscow and safeguard alliance interests without necessarily propelling the West up a nuclear escalation ladder.
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You mean NATO doesn’t have a plan? What have they been doing for the past 77 years?
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Every -- EVERY -- nation with nuclear weapons has already "plans for nuclear war." Therefore, the placement and timing of this article is not advice to governments with nuclear articles. It is published to stir up us rubes. Saber rattling from Foreign Policy.
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"Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy, a role he assumed in November 2020 after two years as the magazine's managing editor. Before joining FP, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, including as the network's New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent."
Now THERE's a trusted voice in news....
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“You mean NATO doesn’t have a plan? What have they been doing for the past 77 years?”
Oh, there’s a plan...it just hasn’t been exercised since Billary Clinton announced the “peace dividend” back in the 90’s. At RAF Mildenhall in the 80’s we used to exercise every six months (”Local Salty Nations” exercises) that always ended with us getting wiped out by a nuke.
Living off the graft and corruption of the lie that NATO is a multi lateral defense pact when in reality, it is an agreement that the United States would cover the expense and the shooting and the dying to defend Europe.
What they did not anticipate was a President Sparklefarts & a President Foggythinker gutting the US military and defaulting on that particular agreement.
NATO nuke plans are based on known and emergent risks. Not a lot changed in that regard during the Cold War.
In the 90s the risk landscape shifted away from Russia and toward asymmetric risks: terrorist groups acquiring nuclear weapons on the black market, or their use of dirty bombs etc.
The current state has to include Russia and North Korea, but also the risk of a nuclear attack being the result of sabotage or other activity at a nuclear power plant.
Basically - there’s no story in this meeting, it is complete predictable. Threat assessments are revisited when the threat landscape changes. That’s how it works.
What plan??? The globalists plan was to start World War 3 in the first place!!!!!!
Uh, no.
Period.
Uhhhh, I wondered the same
Warmongers.
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
They may have to plan, but going to nuclear war is nuts.
When Barry OBastard and Big Mike move to their palatial home in Hawaii, you know something is about to go down. And I don’t mean Barry on Mike.
No signs they are planning for how NOT to have a nuclear war. DC and the neocon globalists do not have a reverse gear. They will push until they get a direct war with Russia, and that will go nuclear.
What the US needs is a plan for the civilian population and infrastructure to survive a nuclear attack.
We quit stockpiling food and water, vast stores of famine supplies of wheat, corn, etc., we decommissioned our shelters, and we no longer train for survival or promote survival among the population.
Our feminized society no longer plans for survival, there is no long-range planning.
And the FR WWIII rah-rah squad erupted in euphoric repeated orgasms at this vision...
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